Just 60 robots run this Chinese warehouse

By host - alessandra-castiglioniThey've increased productivity by 300% & are now doing 70% of the work in the warehouse.

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Why does everyone hate on these robots over jobs? It’s capitalism. Smoke or get smoked. If the goal of YOUR business was to reach maximum efficiency to generate maximum profits, and you KNEW that a machine could outperform a human 9/10 times, why tf wouldn’t you go with a machine? Y’all need to learn new skills, move forward with the market, and understand capitalism is about efficiency and profits.

These sort of over mechanised businesses will have detrimental effects on the economy in the future since money does not come from nothing... 60 jobs effected here and there adds up, simply to save pennies from the retail price. In 20 years time, when a huge chunk of the worlds un-skilled labour force are not working but living off benefits, which ultimately come from the taxation cycle of the ever decreasing workforce.

Without the mass population earning money, there is no spending, which then makes these retail giants pointless. Obviously, there is a place for robots that do intricate without safety risks, that humans can't do as well such as in car factories. Then again these robots in car factories need humans to manage them and maintain them since they are very mechanical, so jobs are created there.

Do we really want to replace thousands of warehouse workers with robots? What's the world going to be like in 50 years? An entire population of dirt-poor peasants whos lively hood has been replaced by robots - but then how will there be an economy in poorer nations with no one earning money.